republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-168.md

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Bill	Nurses; certain definitions; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to nurses, so as to revise certain definitions relating to nurses; to clarify requirements relating to granting authorization to holders of multistate licenses to engage in advanced nursing practice; to repeal a provision relating to the Nurse Licensure Compact; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 168	Georgia SB 168 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Burt Jones Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Ellis Black Freddie Sims Gail Davenport Greg Kirk Harold Jones II Jack Hill Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Mike Dugan Nan Orrock Nikema Williams Renee Unterman Steve Henson Tonya Anderson Tyler Harper	4	16	1	2019-02-22	2019-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/62c0ab1c-cdbf-4f3e-b67e-1841092c7eb5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	18fc0f9baae663068d1423186fb3b034f7c4942a5aff585013881f8c9fd8fd3d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 168 (2019_20) — Nurses; certain definitions; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to nurses, so as to revise certain definitions relating to nurses; to clarify requirements relating to granting authorization to holders of multistate licenses to engage in advanced nursing practice; to repeal a provision relating to the Nurse Licensure Compact; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced LC 33 7774 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 7978S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB168/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Gail Davenport — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Nikema Williams — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-22 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-25 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-25 Act 48 executive-signature
• 2019-04-25 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62c0ab1c-cdbf-4f3e-b67e-1841092c7eb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).